Links of Interest:
Brochure Assignment -- Late Work
1. iRead Ice Story and work on assignments:
For A1, A3, A4, B7 --
1. ?'s Prologue through Chapter 2.
2. ?'s Chapters 3-5.
3. Chapts. 5 - 8 -- Pictures What They Saved and What they Threw Away.
4. Read chapters 9-11 and create a journal entry on your own lined paper as if you are there with Shackleton's expedition. (See packet)
5. Fill out the T-Chart for Chapters 12 - 15.
6. Fill in all available vocabulary words on the chart provided.
Today: Receive Ice Story papers back. Create a packet.
Keep them in your folder until next time. You will hand
them all in at once.
When you receive your brochure back, you may keep the
green papers, but hand the brochure back in -- unless you
are redoing it. We will share them in class on another day,
so they need to be here.
To Save or Not to Save Activity.docx, chapters 5-8
T-Chart for Ice Story.docx chapters 12-15
For B8 --Question for all chapters--
Ice Story Reading Guide Complete.docx
Today: Receive Ice Story papers back. Create a packet.
Keep them in your folder until next time. You will hand
them all in at once.
When you receive your brochure back, you may keep the
green papers, but hand the brochure back in -- unless you
are redoing it. We will share them in class on another day,
so they need to be here.
2. Ice Story Vocabulary
Chapters 16-end
Loom: page 107 to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct andenlarged form: The mountainous island loomed on the horizon.
Premonitions: page 113 a forewarning. synonyms: foreboding, portent, omen, sign.3. Using a dictionary
Here is a site where you can learn about a practice using a dictionary entry. http://www.tv411.org/vocabulary/dictionary-thesaurus/dictionary-entries
Quiz: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_lp2186_dic1.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_lp206_dictionary.shtm
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Using a Dictionary -- Answers to Quiz Questions
For your assigned word, find the part of speech and best definition for the way it is used in Ice Story.
Unrelenting: page
Desolate: page
Improbable: page
Exploits: page
Ebbed: page
Using a Dictionary -- Practice
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4. Test Practice: Purple writing text, page 486-487
5. Ice Story -- Book and Video Venn in your composition book
What differences do you see between the book and the
video?
What do the author and film maker each do to get the story
across?
Which is better?
If time: c. Video
A1 video 1:33:59 (4-26-13) to Disk 2 - 29:30 to 35:20 (the ship is about to sink)
A3 Watched video 2nd disk 13:52 to 38:33 to 1:03:
A4 Watched video to 1:12:53 to 1:16:00 Began 2nd disk 8:55 to 2nd disk 17:17
B7 Watched video to 1:07:55 to 1:17:04 to 1:23:00 Began 2nd disk 8:55 to 2nd disk 12:17 to 30:14 B8 Watch video from 2nd disk 8:55 to 2nd disk to 35:20 (the ship is about to sink)
